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I'm veeeeery laid-back: I'm usually irritable at work but I've been as mellow as I am when I'm stoned.

My muscles are very relaxed, it feels very soothing

My mind isn't racing (concentration improves)

I'm a better, more patient driver

I can sleep well at night!

Essential tremor is not as bad (for those of you who don't know, essential tremor = shakey hands when you're trying to do something slowly... it's a bitch in chemistry class)

I like what I'm seeing so far, I'm going to keep it up and post about my experience... if anyone is interested, that is!

Has anyone succesfully cut caffeine out of their diet? I'd like to hear some experiences from people who've stopped entirely, or stopped using products with significant doses. For example, giving up caffeinated beverages alone. Chocolate has caffeine in it, but it's usually not a significant dose.

I drink coffee and tea often, but I use it as another drug. It has a similar indole-ring in its structure. Caffeine and xanax is fun. It's a strong, addictive drug. And like most strong, addictive drugs, it's legal

I didn't consciously quit, I just don't buy anything caffeinated because I'm broke and water is close to free and its good. I've started eating in a more healthy manner as well, and most caffeinated stuff is just too sweet for me anymore.

i quit caffeene long ago, almost a year i think i only use it on road trips where i have been driving for more than 20 hours...

--------------------PEACE
zippoz

"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

Once the withdrawl is gone (3 or 4 more days) I'm good to go-- then it's just a matter of will-power.

The weight gain is a big plus-- I'm toned but I could stand to gain a few pounds.

Quote:This system of neuroadaptation is the basis of physical addiction and drug tolerance; when your brain is frequently exposed to a drug it adapts to compensate for the presence of the drug. As a result, if the drug is taken away, it leaves your brain 'overcompensating' and off balance in a new way. If you frequently use a drug that suppresses anxiety, then go off it suddenly, you are likely to experience 'rebound' anxiety. If you take a lot of pain killers, then go off them, you are likely to experience 'rebound' pain, even if nothing is wrong with you.

Neuroadaptation isn't 'strange' or abnormal; it's something that is always going on, with or without drugs. It's the reason we develop a tolerance to caffeine...and why that tolerance goes away if we give up caffeine for an extended period.

Neuroadaptation isn't limited to changing the existing receptors. Neurons can also adapt by producing more or less of enzymes that break down neurotransmitters or drugs, or by producing more or fewer new receptors over time. (Proteins like receptors are constantly wearing out and being replaced; thus, if the neuron produces fewer new receptors, the number of receptors will go down over time.)